African Development Bank

Total investments

34

Average round size

107M

Portfolio companies

30

Rounds per year

0.57

Lead investments

15

Follow on index

0.12

Exits

4

Areas of investment
SocialFinancial ServicesFinanceBankingEnergyRenewable EnergySustainabilityAgricultureElectrical DistributionEnergy Management

Summary

African Development Bank is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1963. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Belvu00e9du00e8re. The fund was located in Africa if to be more exact in Tunisia.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the African Development Bank, startups are often financed by KfW, Swedfund International, Nedbank. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are European Investment Bank (EIB). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by China Development Bank, Total, KfW.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Emerging Markets, Financial Services. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Development Bank of Nigeria For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Nigeria.

This African Development Bank works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 80 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
34
Lead investments
15
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.57
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (11)
  • Banking (9)
  • Energy (6)
  • Finance (6)
  • Electrical Distribution (4)
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Investments by region
  • South Africa (3)
  • Nigeria (7)
  • Togo (3)
  • Saudi Arabia (2)
  • United Arab Emirates (2)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
25
Avg. valuation at time of investment
75M
Group Appearance index
0.32
Avg. company exit year
50
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
iSchool 21 Mar 2022 EdTech, Education, Children Seed 1M Al Qahirah, Cairo, Egypt
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